Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Housing, Natural Hazards and Flood Disaster Risk Reduction in Accra, Ghana
On March 18, 2015, the United Nations developed and approved the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). The Sendai Framework, which provided new modalities for achieving risk reduction in the next decade, contained targets and priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks. The scope and purpose of the framework was to guide multi hazard management of disaster risk which apply to all disasters that are caused by natural, man-made, technological and biological hazards. The expected outcome of the Framework is a substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives and livelihoods of communities and countries. Ghana is a signatory to Sendai Framework (2015-2030) which was adopted by the UN General Assembly. One of the sectors of the economy that will challenge the realization of global disaster mitigation goals is housing, especially in the developing world. Inadequate housing supply, poor planning, limited housing alternatives and poor services means more people are living in slum conditions. This study presents the story of two peri urban communities in Accra, Ghana, in West Africa experiencing housing crisis and flooding in a delta area and striving to build resilience to flood hazards. I situate the thesis within the tradition of political ecology. By keeping with this tradition, I hang the thesis on Birkenholtz Network Political Ecology. Trevor Bikenholtz develops network political ecology from regional political ecology and scale theory due to the theory’s ability to examine human and non-human actors in hazard prone spaces. Its applicability in climate change and natural disaster reduction context also makes it more favourable for flood risk research. I apply Network Political Ecology in the flood situation of Tetegu and Glefe, two communities in peri urban Accra, Ghana, to analyze the struggles of both low-income urban dwellers and authorities. I use scholarly literatures, field observation and semi structured interviews with tenants, landlords, local ...
Housing, Natural Hazards and Flood Disaster Risk Reduction in Accra, Ghana
On March 18, 2015, the United Nations developed and approved the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). The Sendai Framework, which provided new modalities for achieving risk reduction in the next decade, contained targets and priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks. The scope and purpose of the framework was to guide multi hazard management of disaster risk which apply to all disasters that are caused by natural, man-made, technological and biological hazards. The expected outcome of the Framework is a substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives and livelihoods of communities and countries. Ghana is a signatory to Sendai Framework (2015-2030) which was adopted by the UN General Assembly. One of the sectors of the economy that will challenge the realization of global disaster mitigation goals is housing, especially in the developing world. Inadequate housing supply, poor planning, limited housing alternatives and poor services means more people are living in slum conditions. This study presents the story of two peri urban communities in Accra, Ghana, in West Africa experiencing housing crisis and flooding in a delta area and striving to build resilience to flood hazards. I situate the thesis within the tradition of political ecology. By keeping with this tradition, I hang the thesis on Birkenholtz Network Political Ecology. Trevor Bikenholtz develops network political ecology from regional political ecology and scale theory due to the theory’s ability to examine human and non-human actors in hazard prone spaces. Its applicability in climate change and natural disaster reduction context also makes it more favourable for flood risk research. I apply Network Political Ecology in the flood situation of Tetegu and Glefe, two communities in peri urban Accra, Ghana, to analyze the struggles of both low-income urban dwellers and authorities. I use scholarly literatures, field observation and semi structured interviews with tenants, landlords, local ...
Housing, Natural Hazards and Flood Disaster Risk Reduction in Accra, Ghana
Asiedu Kuffour, Oscar (Autor:in) / Geography and Planning / Meligrana, John
19.07.2024
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
| British Library Online Contents | 2008
Housing supply in Ghana: a study of Accra, Kumasi and Berekum
| Elsevier | 1999